Poll: Lieberman’s favorability rating has plummeted in the past two weeks.

[babylonsister]

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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/12/23/lieberman-poll/

Poll: Lieberman’s favorability rating has plummeted in the past two weeks.


In recent weeks, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) has faced ire from advocates for the public option, which he successfully forced the Senate to drop from its legislation by threatening to filibuster it. Now, a new CNN poll has found that Lieberman’s “favorable ratings have taken almost a 10-point drop in the past two weeks“:

Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (I-Conn.) favorable ratings have taken almost a 10-point drop in the past two weeks, a new poll found.

31 percent of people told a CNN poll conducted Dec. 16-20 that they had a favorable opinion of Lieberman, a key Senate centrist who’d opposed healthcare reform only until recently. Opinion toward Lieberman, though, was down from a 40 percent favorable rating in the same CNN poll conducted December 2-3 of this year.

Poll respondents’ unfavorable opinion of Lieberman ticked upward over the same period. 34 percent of those polled said they now have an unfavorable opinion of Lieberman, compared to 28 percent who have an unfavorable opinion.

[saltpoint]

1. An encouraging trend. May it continue!

[lamp_shade]

2. Here's to a continuing plunge. n/t

[Selatius]

3. He's a fool and a traitor to the working class. nt

[Cetacea]

4. Recommend.

[Canuckistanian]

5. He doesn't care. As long as those insurance donations don't drop 10 points.

He knows this is his last kick at the can. He's going to milk it for as long as he can.

[bdamomma]

6. now this is good news I hope his numbers continue to go down

[DisgustedInMN]

7. So...

.. exactly when do our elected "representatives" listen to those of us that hired them and boot the worthless son of a bitch off his committee chair? ....

Make that kick his worthless ass off ALL committees.



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[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. Poll, Schmoll, he doesn't care

the insurance companies love him, and that's all that matters.

We, the people, can go pound sand.

:hi:

and I second any opinion that he should be committeeless.

[bfarq]

9. This is what makes me crazy

Democrats in general are pretty bad at framing issues and responding to the GOP talking points. Sometimes it is because the GOP is so unseemly and we don't want to descend to their level. But there are other times when it seems every Dem out there simultaneously goes brain dead.

The big GOP talking point over the past week was that "Obama's poll ratings are plummeting as this bill is passing."

NO !!! That's not what the polls say. The polls say that Americans are 60-70% in favor of heath care reform IF IT DOES SOMETHING TO RESTRAIN THE INSURANCE COMPANIES. Obama's poll numbers went down WHEN HE SOLD OUT TO LIEBERMAN.

Why is it so hard for Democrats to articulate that? I guess it is hard for them because most of them still don't get it. We have two really big problems: insurance companies that have an anti-trust exemption and act like it, and drug companies the charge Americans 3 times what they charge for the same drugs in other countries. Fix those two things and you will put us on track to be much much closer to the cost of health care in other countries.

And you fix that by:
- Ending the anti-trust exemption
- Allow drug reimporting

That couldn't be simpler. And the average American understands that the Senate bill isn't doing anything of the sort. it is nibbling at the edges while mandating another 30 million customers to the same crooks that have caused the problem. That's why the polls dropped, as well they should.

Let's see if any of this can be fixed in conference.